Nick Flynn Quotes

When I was a child, writing was the worst possible choice of a career in my family.

Nick Flynn

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: January 26, 1960

Topics

FamilyChildWritingCareerChoice

I woke up one morning thinking about wolves and realized that wolf packs function as families. Everyone has a role, and if you act within the parameters of your role, the whole pack succeeds, and when that falls apart, so does the pack.

Jodi Picoult

FamilyMorningWolvesThinkingWolf

It is only those who believe in their ability who shine when it matters.

Maurice Greene

ShineBelieveMattersAbilityOnly

The lessons taught in great books are misleading. The commerce in life is rarely so simple and never so just.

Anita Brookner

LifeGreatSimpleNeverJustBooks

If you continually write and read yourself as a fiction, you can change what's crushing you.

Jeanette Winterson

ChangeYourselfYouWriteFiction

Life is given to you like a flat piece of land and everything has to be done. I hope that when I am finished, my piece of land will be a beautiful garden, so there is a lot of work.

Jeanne Moreau

LifeWorkHopeBeautifulI AmYou

When people ask me what I call myself, I am not going to say 'Christian rapper,' because what they think of when they hear Christian rap is something very different from what I do.

Trip Lee

MyselfI AmPeopleMeThinkSay

I so wanted to perform, and I grasped every opportunity.

Trevor Nunn

OpportunityWantedEveryPerform

Every time I go onstage, it's a little less 'Chris Rock's brother.'

Tony Rock

TimeBrotherGoRockLittleEvery

I'm always afraid of making mistakes. I think I was born with that.

RM

MistakesThinkMaking MistakesBorn

They don't want to be reminded that there is an authority higher than the authority of the state.

Roy Moore

WantAuthorityStateThanHigher

I'm a really big fan of all things macabre in general; Halloween happens to be my favorite holiday.

Dove Cameron

HolidayThingsBigBig FanHappens

Confidence in a bloke would be arrogance in a woman. For years, I didn't give interviews because I was scared of people judging me or thinking I was arrogant.

Alice Lowe

ConfidenceWomanPeopleMeThinking

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